"There are too many literary magazines in the world. 'Hey, we should start a lit mag?' is one of the most common things people say in the just-fucking-around phase of life, right up there with 'Hey, we should start a band?' and 'Hey why don’t we just start selling weed?' ... It’s a drag too when people send their zine-looking publications to us at VICE and they aren’t any good and we cringe. 'ANOTHER one of these fucking things?' we ask, tossing them in the corner that is also the final resting place for most of the crappy CDs we get sent... J&L Illustrated #3 is not like those sad magazines that end up in the round file. It’s edited by VICE contributor Paul Maliszewski and published by J&L Books, a small press run by Leanne Shapton, photographer, and VICE contributor Jason Fulford. Since people we like already are involved with it (it also contains a story by Amie Barrodale), we’re predisposed to enjoy it, but it’s pretty fucking excellent even if you don’t care about any of those people."-VICE Magazine